Photo: Sakistriantafyllou · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lake Asomata is an artificial lake on the Aliakmonas, about 8 km from Veria, with blue water among fertile plains and low hills. It is about 2.6 km² in area and has become a wetland for birds and fish.
How it formed
It was formed by a dam completed in 1985, one of the four large hydroelectric works of the Public Power Corporation on the river, with Ilarionas, Polyfyto and Sfikia. Its outflow feeds the lake at Agia Varvara, just downstream.
Visit
Swimming
No reliable information
Tips
From the lake, a bridge over the Aliakmonas leads across towards Vergina, and the road then forks for Sfikia and Rizomata, with a rest area by the water on the right. About 2.2 km along the Sfikia road, a right turn leads to the monastery of Timios Prodromos, on a cliff above the gorge, with a small waterfall and a path down to a cave where Gregory Palamas is said to have lived as a hermit.
A walk follows the river from the dam towards Sfikia, past the 15th-century monastery of Moutsiali and along the meanders of the gorge. People also picnic under the plane trees and cycle along the shore, and dirt roads through the Polydendro oak forest give views of Mount Olympus. Sfikia is about 29 km from Veria, and there are restaurants in Sfikia and Rizomata.
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Sources & data
- Greece's 2022 Water Framework Directive reporting to the EEA: lake (LW) and transitional (TW) water bodies, field cArea, European Environment Agency (WISE WFD), reported by Greece, 2022
- OpenStreetMap: Τεχνητή Λίμνη Ασωμάτων (relation 16854893), OpenStreetMap contributors
- Greek Wikipedia: Λίμνη Ασωμάτων, Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata: Lake Asomaton (Q15057364), Wikimedia Foundation
- Lake Asomaton, Lakes Network
- Aliakmonas: between Pieria and Vermio (2016), Odigos tou Politi